Basic B Pilates

If your shoulders are always rounded forward, your back muscles are spending all day in a lengthened position.

The issue isn’t that they’re too short, it’s that they’re too weak to hold you upright for an extended period of time.

Instead of pulling on muscles that are already stretched, teach them to contract. Build the strength and endurance for better posture.

Sometimes the muscles that feel tight aren’t the ones that actually need more stretching.

If lifting your arm feels tight, pinchy or painful in your shoulder, it’s rarely just a shoulder problem.

It’s usually a coordination issue: how your body is organizing the movement when you lift your arm.

If the shoulder blade isn’t gliding well, the shoulder ends up doing work it was never meant to do alone.

In sessions, I don’t start by strengthening the shoulder, I start by looking at how the movement is being distributed.

Once that changes, overhead movement usually feels very different.

It’s not the exercise-it’s how you control it.

This movement might look like a simple ab exercise, but the goal isn’t to do more reps or find a harder variation.

The goal isn’t to improve your ability to manage the relationship between your ribcage and pelvis.

That front -to -back connection is what gives the exercise value.

When you focus on control instead of just completing the movement, even the most basic of exercises become far more effective.